Laurence Cottle
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Laurence Cottle is an electric bass guitarist and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

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Career

His solo recordings have been mostly in the jazz
Jazz
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 and jazz-fusion
Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion is a musical fusion genre that developed from mixing funk and R&B rhythms and the amplification and electronic effects of rock, complex time signatures derived from non-Western music and extended, typically instrumental compositions with a jazz approach to lengthy group improvisations,...

 vein, with such notable releases as Five Seasons, Laurence Cottle Quintet Live and others.

He was a member of the Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, California
California
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-based fusion quartet, The Fents, and appears on their second album, The Other Side, released on the Passport Jazz label in 1987.

Cottle produced three albums for guitarist Jim Mullen
Jim Mullen
Jim Mullen is a Glasgow-born jazz guitarist with a distinctive style, like Wes Montgomery before him, picking with the thumb rather than a plectrum.-Biography:...

 in the 1990s, recorded with British jazz musicians Mornington Lockett
Mornington Lockett
Mornington Edward Lockett is an English jazz saxophonist.Lockett began playing clarinet at age 14 before switching to tenor sax. He studied at Dartington College of Arts, graduating in 1981, then undertook further study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1984-85...

, Tim Garland
Tim Garland
Tim Garland is a British jazz saxophonist, composer and band-leader. He is also known for his innovative bass clarinet playing and for his prolific output as composer, blurring the boundaries between modern jazz and classical concert music.As a performer, he has worked widely both in Britain and...

, Django Bates
Django Bates
Django Bates , is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and band leader. He plays the piano, keyboards and the tenor horn. He currently lives in Copenhagen where he is a professor at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory and leader of the StoRMChaser orchestra.-Career:Django Bates was born in Beckenham,...

, Gerard Presencer
Gerard Presencer
Gerard Presencer is an English jazz trumpeter who has also made a name as a session player in pop-music contexts, and as a jazz educator. He currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.- Biography :...

 and John Graham
John Graham
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He has written music for film and television including the television programs Friends
Friends
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and The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
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Cottle was a member of Bill Bruford
Bill Bruford
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's Earthworks
Earthworks (band)
Bill Bruford's Earthworks was a British jazz band led by drummer Bill Bruford. The band recorded several albums for Editions EG, Discipline Global Mobile and Summerfold Records....

 from 2003 to 2006.

In 2009, Cottle produced albums for Claire Martin
Claire Martin
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, Gareth Williams, and Mark Nightingale
Mark Nightingale
Mark Daryl Nightingale is an English jazz trombonist.Nightingale began on trombone at age nine, and played in the Midland Youth Jazz Orchestra and the National Youth Jazz Orchestrain his teens. He attended Trinity College of Music from 1985-88...

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He leads his own Laurence Cottle Big Band playing a variety of standards and his own material.

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